WordPress is a great solution for people in need of a website or blog, though installing WordPress can be a bit tricky. Luckily for many people, hosting providers are beginning to roll out one button installs of WordPress Joomla, Drupal and more. This is obviously the easiest way to go about doing this, which you can generally find in your hosting options. The down side of this is it can take quite awhile for them to be created, and let’s be honest, it’s just not as fun. The following example is using GoDaddy hosting, other hosting services may look a bit different.

To install a WordPress site yourself, you will need a few things: a hosting account, FTP access and a mysql database.

8. Once this is done, simply login to your ftp and upload the files to your web space. If you need to find your ftp information, you can do so through your hosting(similarto setting up your database)

9. Once all of your files are uploaded, visit the domain that you uploaded your files to(you may have to navigate to a subfolder if you put them there). You will then see a wordpress setup page in which you create your user name, password and email associated with the site.

Are you one of the 17 million WordPress powered blogs or websites out there? If so, have you done your part to optimize it? If you haven’t yet, do not fret. The following is a list of 5 fairly awesome WordPress plugins that can help simplify this process and boost your search results.

This plug-in can canonicalize your site or blog, add analytics tracking code, change your permalinks to readable urls and allow you to modify your title and meta tags. If you’re lazy they will even generate them for you!

Redirection is a WordPress plug-in to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation(which can be a huge hassle).

This plug-in allows you the option of linking pages to certain keywords or phrases residing on your website or blog. It also includes nofollow link options. No more need to manually tread through your website and set-up your internal anchor text!